MK Wynn is a visual artist and Yale Professor Emerita of cognitive science whose scientific research examined how minds construct reality, how identity persists or ruptures through change, and how we place ourselves in the social world. Her studio practice, spanning printmaking and painting, extends these questions through iterative works that probe identity, metamorphosis, and the psychology of safety and sanctuary. Her series Trappings of Domesticity uses chair archetypes to test how sanctuary is constructed and undone—probing attachment, precarity, and the thresholds where comfort turns unstable. Wynn’s work has been shown in North America, Europe, and Asia; collections and commissions include Yale University (Dean’s Collection; Silliman College) and print collections in Taiwan and the Netherlands. Elected to The Boston Printmakers in 2024, she is a member of Zea Mays Printmaking, the Monotype Guild of New England, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, and Southern Graphics Council International. She has served as curator and juror for various exhibits, and in 2023 co-founded Verdigris Gallery & Studio to promote contemporary green printmaking and to support emerging artists.

"I make paintings and unique prints by returning to a few simple forms—chairs, trees, forest spaces. Across multiple passeses using monotype, intaglio and relief printmaking processes, I test what kinds of change sustain identity, and what forces transformation. My pieces are records of looking and re-looking—small shifts in line and light that add up to a different feeling."